Are 10-20 year old CDRs still playing?

I have several Promo/advance CDRs from 10 or more years ago and a couple of them are having trouble loading lately, including a nice Sony/ATV sampler of Beatles covers. It also tracks funny, not skipping during the music, but between tracks it skips or pauses. Anybody finding their promo CDRs messing up?

 

Not mine. Less than perfect sound forever!

 

I have a CDR that's been in my car's CD player for 9 years and it still plays without a problem.

 

Yep, my cdr's on Phillips Pro cd's from the late 1990's are perfect.
And they're scratch resistant unlike any other I've used.
Don't quote me, but I'd swear they sound better than any other.
Wish they still made them.

 

Some do.

 

Some don't.

 

I've had a ridiculous amount of old CDRs go bad on me. Destroyed any confidence I had in this medium. Today, all my digital music is backed up to FLAC (if from a CD source) on not one, but two seperate hard drives. This situation has also, in part, reawakened my relationship with vinyl.

 

I'm doing an experiment in this matter actually, i have a cd-r i burned 1998 - 1999 on cheap no-name media. Once in a while i perform read-test on it and it still performs perfectly to this day.

I'm confident it will last forever

Edit: cd in question is a data cd-r.

 

Could be your player(s). They get old and the eye gets hazy and needs cleaned, and some CD players didn't do CDRs well to begin with.
I have had very few CDRs crap out on me. It happens, but I have a gazillion of them, I expect to have one take a dump now and then.

 

I have some old burned discs of that vintage that play fine.
Even if they "seem" like they aren't.

Bought a spindle of HP brand Cdrs last winter that wont track well.
But at $6 for 50, I don't care too much

 

Some need a little lovin'.

 

For backing up digital music-colection BD-R is the superior media, scratch-resitent too. Should last you at least 40 years.

 

I've got vinyl that is 50 years old and plays like the day it was new.

 

It's true some cd-players could barely read cd-r to when they were brand spankin new, try the disc on a computer and see if that works.

 

I've said this before: don't put adhesive labels on your cd-r's. It messes them up.

 

Don't storage the discs in the garage either

 

You beat me to it. Almost every single CDR that's gone bad on me had an adhesive paper label.

 

I have some CDR's from the late 90's that still play fine.

 

Yes...CDRs about 16 years old.

 

Depends on storage ofcourse, vinyl are sensitive to direct sunlight, dirt, bad stylus etc.

Nothing lasts forever.

 

I've had a couple that were given to me go bad but so far none that I've done. I still don't trust them.

 

Depends on the CD player . Some machines may have difficulty with a particular disc , while a different machine plays that same cdr without any issues.

 

Yeah I've heard THAT before...(that they will last 40 years).

 

I have some between 10-12 years style playing fine.

 

It depends on where I burned them. I have some that I burned at the radio station back in 1992 with the Sadie Professional system a 2x that play perfect anywhere, anytime. Then I have some that I burned high speed on a computer 5 years ago that won't play.